Space station & stone-age units

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From: Mike Van Pelt
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1989 04:26

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According to a contact at NASA, the space station as it is currently
planned is going to have a mix of English and Metric parts.  This
means that they have to have two sets of tools, and other such 
nonsense.

According to that contact, this was decided when Dale Myers, a former
high official at Rockwell who is now the Deputy Administrator of NASA,
upon hearing that the space station would use metric parts said
"What?!, METRIC?! - Why that's UN-AMERICAN!", and decreed that
stone-age barleycorn & King George's shoe size measurements shall be
used on the space station.

Does anyone else have any information on this outrage?
-- 
Mike Van Pelt                          Here lies a Technophobe,
Video 7                                   No whimper, no blast.
...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp                 His life's goal accomplished,
                                          Zero risk at last.

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From: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Space station & stone-age units
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Date: 11 Mar 89 04:26:58 GMT
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